More than a dozen people have been shot in Chicago since Wednesday afternoon, including a 12-year-old boy

Three people were killed and at least 10 others, including a 12-year-old boy, have been wounded in South, West and North side shootings since Wednesday afternoon, Chicago police said.

A 25-year-old man, identified as Eric Washington, was shot to death in the University Village/Little Italy neighborhood, and another man was injured in the same attack about 12:05 p.m., police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The shooting happened in the 1200 block of West 13th Street. Six people have been killed within a block of the parking lot where the men were shot Wednesday since 2009, according to city records.

Washington, of the 1200 block of West Washburne Avenue, was shot in the abdomen and back, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 12:45 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. A short time later, a 24-year-old man walked into Stroger with a gunshot wound to his leg but refused medical treatment and signed a release so he could leave.

The shooting scene was part of a parking lot between row houses. Tape surrounded a black hoodie, a white hoodie, a cellphone and five shell casings. Police, uncertain of exactly what happened, later expanded the crime scene to include the entire lot and an earpiece they found on the ground near a driveway.

About 2 p.m., a Berwyn man was shot in the abdomen at 49th Street and Winchester Avenue in the Back of the Yards neighborhood and taken in critical condition to Stroger, authorities said.

The 24-year-old, identified as Ismael Lopez, of the 1500 block of Elm Street, was pronounced dead at 2:51 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office.

The shooting happened in an intersection, but the man fell on a sidewalk just north of 49th Street, down the street from Hedges Elementary School.

An hour after the shooting, parents walked their kids under tape that had been placed around the crime scene. Police let them through if they stayed close to the wrought-iron fences across the street from where the man fell.

The tape stretched across the entire intersection, and part of the scene encompassed a mural painted by Mothers for Peace. It included a section titled "A Mother's Greatest Fear," with paintings of cuffed hands, a graveyard and the county jail.

Police think the shooting was part of an ongoing conflict between gangs in the area.

In the most recent shooting, a 27-year-old man walked into Weiss Memorial Hospital after being fatally wounded around 3:44 a.m. Thursday in Uptown on the North Side, said Officer Ron Gaines, a Chicago police spokesman.

Quinn Ford, Chicago Tribune

Police investigate a silver Chevrolet Blazer parked near Mount Sinai Hospital early Thursday morning. Two men were shot while sitting in the car in the Little Village neighborhood Wednesday evening.

Police investigate a silver Chevrolet Blazer parked near Mount Sinai Hospital early Thursday morning. Two men were shot while sitting in the car in the Little Village neighborhood Wednesday evening.

(Quinn Ford, Chicago Tribune)

The man was shot in the chest in the 4800 block of North Lake Shore Drive and transferred to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Gaines said. He was pronounced dead there at 7:34 a.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. Officials identified him as Boshaun Jackson, of the 4400 block of North Clifton Avenue.

Around 11:25 p.m. Wednesday, a 19-year-old man and a 26-year-old man were wounded in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side, Gaines said.

The two were sitting in a vehicle in the 2800 block of South Kostner Avenue when a dark-colored SUV pulled up alongside and someone in the SUV started shooting, Gaines said.

The 19-year-old was shot in the forearm and the back, and the 26-year-old was hit in the arm and grazed on the side, Gaines said. Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where their conditions stabilized.

Early Thursday, police officers examined a silver Chevrolet Blazer that was parked next to Mount Sinai Hospital. At least two bullet holes could be seen on the driver’s side door of the vehicle, in which the two men sat when they were shot. Officers took photos of the vehicle.

Around 7:50 p.m., two men were shot in the 7800 block of South Carpenter Street, police said.

The men, 22 and 23, were both shot in the leg and taken to an area hospital where their conditions had stabilized, police said.

At 6:15 p.m., a 12-year-old boy was in critical but stable condition after being shot on the West Side, police said.

Family members said Dontrel Jones was on his way to a barbershop in the 5900 block of West North Avenue when he was shot in the chest. He was taken to West Suburban Hospital and later transferred to Stroger Hospital.

Dontrel’s aunt Lakeisha Williams, 30, said the shooting appeared to be a result of an ongoing gang rivalry in the area. She said Dontrel, who is a sixth-grader at Ella Flagg Young Elementary School, was an innocent bystander.

“He just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Williams while standing outside Stroger Hospital Wednesday evening.

She added that her nephew likes to play football and basketball and was on his way to the barbershop after finishing an after-school program when the shooting happened.

Williams said her nephew and most family members grew up in North Austin and have never been affected by gun violence. She said Dontrel is scheduled to undergo surgery sometime Thursday.

At 6:20 p.m., a 19-year-old man was shot in the 7800 block of South Calumet Avenue, police said. The man was shot in the upper thigh and taken to Stroger, where his condition had stabilized, police said.

About 6:30 p.m., a 15-year-old boy was shot in the right leg while walking in front of a grocery store in the 300 block of West 75th Street, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a police spokeswoman. The boy was in good condition at Comer Children's Hospital, she said.

Another man, 27, was shot about 3:15 p.m. in the 7000 block of South Racine Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood, police said. He walked into Saint Bernard Hospital with wounds to the leg and lower back and was transferred to Stroger, authorities said.

He was in a car when someone walked up and started shooting, police said.